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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley Ann; Smith, Sarah - CESifo - 2014

donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between …

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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?

d'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Pro Bono Work and Trust in Expert Fields

Ong, David; Yang, Chun-Lei - CESifo - 2014

A controversy has been simmering in law for at least 30 years about whether pro bono work should be mandatory for lawyers, who now donate 1-3% of their time to the poor. This has centered on the unmet legal needs of the poor, the duty of lawyers, and the contrast with US doctors, who are...

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Intentions and Social Interactions

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006

choice of identity, social exclusion, marital divorce, and its implication for political correctness and affirmative action. …

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A Psychological Game with Interdependent Preference Types

Amegashie, J. Atsu - CESifo - 2006

of mutually beneficial trades, the choice of identity, social exclusion, marital divorce, and political correctness. …

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Real Estate Prices and the Importance of Bequest Taxation

Bellettini, Giorgio; Taddei, Filippo - CESifo - 2009

Taxation of bequests and donations is an important determinant of real estate prices. We show that, ceteris paribus, a … decrease in taxes on inter vivos donations and bequests brings about an increase in real estate prices. We provide a general … taxation on bequests and donations alone led to an appreciation of residential real estate in excess of 10%. …

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Pay as you Go: A New Proposal for Museum Pricing

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - CESifo - 2010

goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free entry. The museum club solution or exit donations allow for various …

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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012

cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is …

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011

norms that causes an increase in identity utility for the formerly unemployed. This is supportive of the idea that, by … including identity in the utility function, results from the empirical life satisfaction literature can be reconciled with the …

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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - CESifo - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...

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